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  1. USAFChief
    This is 100 percent on the players. One. Hundred. Percent. I dont often side with ownership, but they are the ones trying to get a season going. It's the players pissing and moaning about money. Trying to use this situation to negotiate the next CBA.
  2. USAFChief
    Players haven't shared in the increased revenues over the past decades?? And They aren't getting offered 1/2 their salary for 1/2 the games because owners dont expect 1/2 the revenue. These aren't honest arguments you're making, Mike.
  3. USAFChief
    Ted, you've completely ignored the 70% drop in revenue. If revenues go from $10B to $3B, it's not unreasonable for owners to demand players salaries drop massively. And as Nick mentions, taking more from higher salaried employees than lower is a pretty reasonable and standard business practice. This article is not well thought out. In fact, it's ridiculously biased.
  4. USAFChief
    “If I’m going to play, I should be at the money I signed to be getting paid,” Snell said. “I should not be getting half of what I’m getting paid because the season’s cut in half, all on top of a 33% cut of the half that’s already there, so I’m really getting like 25%. On top of that, it’s getting taxed. So imagine how much I’m actually making to play, you know what I’m saying? Like, I ain’t making (expletive). And on top of that, so all of that money’s gone and now I play risking my life.” Blake Snell I read somewhere that 40% of wage earners who make 40K or less are currently unemployed, but baseball players feel put upon being asked to take less. Screw them. I hope Blake Snell never earns another penny playing baseball. Let him earn his living digging ditches. Offer his job to a minor leaguer. I could not be more disgusted with the MLBPA.
  5. USAFChief
    I simply cant get behind the players on this. The entire world is hurting, unemployment in the US is at great depression levels, and players are going to argue over compensation? Shame on them.
  6. USAFChief
    1. Killer 2. Carew 3. Mauer 4. Morneau 5. Zoilo
  7. USAFChief
    Someday when you're bored, go look up Blyleven's first six seasons with the Twins. Prepare to be amazed, at both how good Bert was, and how much baseball has changed in a few short decades.
  8. USAFChief
    Killebrew walked 145 times in 69,and led the AL with a .427 OBP. It's not plate discipline that limits RBI. Killer played 162 games that year, and got 709 PAs. That, coupled with 49 dingers and a .584 SLG got him the ribeyes. In the year Sosa drove in 160, he walked 116 times, .437 OBP...with 711 PAs. Its those 700-ish PAs that players today are unlikely to reach, more than walks. Not putting the ball in play is an issue, but not as much as playing time. Sosa had 150 Ks in his 160 RBI season.
  9. USAFChief
    his great 1996 season included a SLG of .517.
  10. USAFChief
    No.
  11. USAFChief
    Cesar Tovar nonconcurs.
  12. USAFChief
    Win the World Series. That is the definition of success in major league baseball. Anything less can be enormously enjoyable, but cant be called success.
  13. USAFChief
    I could see a scenario where the Twins win the most games in the AL this year. But I don't think they're "the best team" by any other measure.
  14. USAFChief
    Brag much??
  15. USAFChief
    "...a production of Cats at Earl Campbell Middle School in League City." I want to write like Randball.
  16. USAFChief
    Depends on what day that final game falls on.
  17. USAFChief
    I doubt the Twins call up Kiriloff to replace an injured Cave, unless Cave was playing every day. If that was the case, Kiriloff would then play every day. They're not going to put Kiriloff on the bench for any length of time. He's more valuable to the organization then Cave, and they dont need metrics to make that call. A better question...would they call up Kiriloff if it was Rosario going on the IL?
  18. USAFChief
    if you spread ABs across the roster, you are by definition intentionally taking ABs from the better players and giving them to the weaker players. I dont want Adrianza to get ABs at the expense of Polanco, except as necessary, and I dont want Cave to get ABs at the expense of Kepler or Buxton. I trust our management to be capable of using history, health, and potential to determine ahead of time where the regular playing time should go. Now, if someone has 3 months of poor performance, and you have someone worth trying, fine. But I absolutely dont want them to make that decision based on who was hot yesterday.
  19. USAFChief
    I got the bonus...its ME!
  20. USAFChief
    Let's make the regular season 7 games, and the post season 162.
  21. USAFChief
    yeah, the gang problem is pretty bad in south central.
  22. USAFChief
    Yes.
  23. USAFChief
    Boy, I dont agree. IMO Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, gambling on baseball--including games which he was managing--is a scandal multiple orders of magnitude bigger than this. This is big, and ugly, but it doesnt lead me to believe there's any chance games could have been lost intentionally. Nothing can be as corrosive to the integrity of competition as the hint of an idea that games are being lost on purpose. Gambling does that.
  24. USAFChief
    I think the fact the Commissioner sent out a letter in September, 2017 to all teams is pretty clear proof they DID know, or suspect, what was happening. But at that point, what else would you have him do?
  25. USAFChief
    Players were granted immunity at the start of the investigation, in an attempt to get to the truth. In addition, the letter the commissioner sent out in 2017, specifically addressing this issue, make clear GMs and Managers would be held accountable for violations.
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